Me and Mr fruitbat will be taking our skodas through the woods on saturday at The Border Counties rally based in Jedburgh, the scottish borders.

Taking in 5 stages to the north of kielder in some of rallyings most famous stages of ye old RAC days.

Any one out spectating be sure to give us a wave, james will be car 131 and myself car 132..

Look forward to seeing you saturday james , pretty sure once the rally starts i wont see you for dust ( or mud )

Hi, sounds like a great event, hope the weather holds for you. Would be nice to see some piccys of the felicias in action?

Hi Dave,

Looking forward to meeting you too - it's always nice to see other Felicias out on the stages.

I'm really looking forward to the event - I've rallied on the Otterburn tarmac quite often, and done the Jim Clark twice, but this is my first forest event in that part of the world - something I've always wanted to do.

Just a few bits and pieces to do on the car - I popped out and spanner checked it and bled the brakes in the last two hours of daylight today - should just be tidying up and a good wash needed now.

cheers

James

kielder killed my felicia...

1st stage roll down a gulley ended the day rather quickly...both ok but the car is worse for wear.

Nice to meet you james and pleased your day was better than mine !

Nice to meet you too Dave.

We spoke to the crew of the Fiesta who said they had seen you roll in front of them - what happened?

I've never driven in Kielder before, but it was like walking on a tightrope compared to rallying in the Yorkshire forests - those big ditches made the road feel about a foot wide, and there were so many changes of surface - some hard, some gravel, some sandy mud - probably the most difficult event I've done.

cheers

James

it was a tight right , looks like i cut the corner too tight and front bumper dug in and sat us up on the front of the car...did a 180 degree flip and fell back onto the roof in the ditch.

was about 8 foot below track level and thankfully the stream was'nt deep ! We are both ok, worse thing was having a wet bum ..

the car however looks worse for wear, and i agree about the surface-soon as you got used to the grip levels it changed.

pleased you got through to the end james

Sounds like a fun event.. Sorry to hear of your off track soiree, is it a total loss or is it going to be repaired?

i have most the panels needed in stock , perhaps a roof skin would be handy.

Luckily it is only panel damage ( and wallet damage )

What about the big dent in your pride :wonder:

it's only metal though at the end of the day.. < damn that sounds so cliche.. I've never even looked at how the roof skin will come off a felicia before, I bet it's not a 5 minuite job for sure... Probably a few dozen spot welds and a crate of kronenburg should get it off